Angela Moscaritolo

Angela has been a PCMag reporter since January 2012. Prior to joining the team, she worked as a reporter for SC Magazine, covering everything related to hackers and computer security. Angela has also written for The Northern Valley Suburbanite in New Jersey, The Dominion Post in West Virginia, and the Uniontown-Herald Standard in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of West Virginia University's Perely Isaac Reed School of Journalism.

Google recently purged 'millions' of bogus or otherwise bad Play store reviews and ratings in a single week. During that same period, Google also removed 'thousands of bad apps identified due to suspicious reviews and rating activities on them.'

Amazon's Digital Day sale will take place on Friday, Dec. 28, with up to 80 percent off 'thousands' of digital goodies such as Kindle ebooks, Marvel graphic novels, digital magazines, games, apps, movies, audiobooks, software, and more.

The civil rights organization is urging Facebook and Instagram users to log off the social networks for one week, starting today, following revelations that Russia used the platform to recruit unwitting black citizens to spread divisive messages during and after the 2016 election.

AI may help make the roads safer, reduce waste, improve accessibility, stem the spread of misinformation, and more. On the scary side, though, many fear the technology may be used to create more targeted cyberattacks, aid government surveillance, and power killer drones.

Over the coming weeks, Google Assistant will begin proactively informing users about predicted flight delays, Google announced Monday. You'll get a notification on your phone if Google is at least 85 percent confident your flight will be delayed.

The bug gave third-party apps 'access to a broader set of photos than usual' for 12 days, from Sept. 13-25. Facebook promised to notify all potentially impacted users but you can also proactively check if your account was affected by visiting a Facebook Help Center link.

Google on Thursday announced that parents can now use the Family Link app on Chromebooks to set screen time limits and establish bedtime hours for their youngsters. That way, when it's time for bed, they will see a message to take a break and come back in the morning.

The drink seller will give one lucky person $100,000 to ditch their smartphone in favor of a '1996-era cellular telephone' for a full year. You'll need to take a lie-detector test at the end of the contest to prove your abstinence.

To prevent the musician from coming face to face with her stalkers, Swift's team employed a somewhat controversial solution during her May 18 Rose Bowl show: facial-recognition technology, Rolling Stone reports.

Google on Thursday announced it will now show the location of nearby Lime scooters, pedal bikes, and electric bikes inside its Maps app for iOS and Android in 13 cities. Just navigate to your destination in Google Maps, then tap on the transit icon to see nearby Lime vehicles.

A year after announcing plans to add Google's media streamer back to its digital store shelves, Amazon has finally made good on that promise. The move comes three years after Amazon pulled Chromecast and Apple TV from its store because neither of them ran Prime Video.

Puma has given the RS-Computer an upgrade for 2018, complete with Bluetooth support and their own app, while keeping the same iconic look from the 80s. The smart sneaker can measure the number of steps you take, your distance traveled, and calories burned.

Both globally and in the US, the World Cup was the top trending search on Google in 2018. Google says people searched for the good in the world 'more than ever' this year but celebrity deaths and scandals also received a ton of interest, not to mention cryptocurrencies.

Citing two unnamed sources 'briefed on the investigation,' The New York Times on Tuesday reported that the attack is believed to be part of a larger 'intelligence-gathering effort' by China's Ministry of State Security spy agency.

A recently-completed audit commissioned by Super Micro turned up no evidence of the purported malicious hardware. Investigator Nardello & Co reportedly looked at Super Micro's software and design files and tested samples of its motherboards sold to Apple and Amazon.

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